On 01/29/2014 04:17 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> qmp-shell hides the QMP wire protocol JSON encoding from the user.  Most
> of the time this is helpful and makes the command-line human-friendly.
> 
> Some QMP commands take a dict as an argument.  In order to express this
> we need to revert back to JSON notation.
> 
> This patch allows JSON dict arguments in qmp-shell so commands like
> blockdev-add and nbd-server-start can be invoked:
> 
>   (QEMU) blockdev-add options={"driver":"file","id":"drive1",...}
> 
> Note that spaces are not allowed since str.split() is used to break up
> the command-line arguments first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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